Link: Convict Records (Transportation) - UK/IRISH/YORK to Aus/Tasmania/Bermuda

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ConvictRecords.com.au allows you to search the British Convict transportation register for convicts transported to Australia between 1787-1867.

Information available includes name of convict, known aliases, place convicted, port of departure, date of departure, port of arrival, and the source of the data.

To get started, enter the firstname or surname of the person you are looking for, or click advanced search options to search by year or ship name. Only one search field is necessary to get started.

http://www.convictrecords.com.au/

You can also search by Surname and Year - Browse Convicts   
http://www.convictrecords.com.au/convicts/

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Transportation of Convicts - The National Archives, Kew, England
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/transportation-australia.htm

Contents:-
Why use this guide?
Essential information
Why transportation became a form of punishment
Tracing a convict in legal records
Other records of transportation
Settlement in Australia
Further reading

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Transportation of Convicts also took them to Bermuda.

There is a Facebook page set up for this..
Bermuda Convict Hulks https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bermuda-Convict-Hulks/174940175879002

In 1776, with its American colonies fighting for independence and its jails overflowing, the British government began converting old ships into floating prisons or ‘hulks’ to house convicts sentenced to transportation

We are interested in international recognition for the work that has been done and the unique nature of the one-of-a-kind artifacts. Other sites in Bermuda have been discovered that we have yet to explore. We are interested in individuals possibly seeking to research, publicize and dramatize the importance of this serious find. These clues to the past have gone unrecognized because of the atrocities that occurred and unwillingness of people in the present to recognize the inhumanity at that time. There is a story to be told in the finding of these artifacts and we are looking for help in telling it.

The Bermuda Hulk Finds - http://convicthulks.com/
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Moving Here - Tracing your Roots - Transported Criminals
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/caribbean/migration/migrantgroups3.htm

From about 1615 to 1783 many thousands of people were sentenced to transportation, or had death sentences reduced to transportation, and were sent to the American colonies. Not all of these people were criminals, many being political prisoners, vagrants or debtors and people moved from their land in Ireland and Scotland.

Transportation was for ten years as most colonies would not allow longer sentences. Merchants arranged for shipment, through agents in British ports, and if on arrival in the colonies transportees were not already allocated estates to work on they were put up for auction.

There are no comprehensive lists of transported people and unfortunately where there are lists they do not always state which colony they were sent to.

Some information can be found in The National Archives. For example, lists of people transported or recommended for transportation can be found in Colonial Office records, State Papers series, Patent rolls, Treasury correspondence and Treasury Money Books. The National Archives also holds trial records for the senior courts. See National Archives leaflet on Transportation to America for further information.

Other records such as transportation bonds, delivery of prisoners to agents and ships, transportation agents papers and landing certificates may be found in British county record offices.

For further information see:

P W Coldham, Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc, 1988)
P W Coldham, Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 , 4 vols (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc, 1987-93)
P W Coldham, Bonded Passengers to America , 3 vols (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc, 1983)

Between 1824 and 1853 convicts were also sent to Bermuda to build the Royal Naval dockyard at Ireland Island. These was not a penal settlement and convicts were returned once their sentence was completed. Lists of convicts on the Bermuda hulks are in National Archives series HO 8.

National Archives - Transportation to America  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/transportation-australia.htm
3.1 Transportation to North America and the West Indies

Series reference HO 8   http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=7563&SearchInit=4&SearchType=6&CATREF=HO+8&j=1

Some returns for hulks at Bermuda are included

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Irish Convicts to New South Wales

List of Ships Transporting Convicts to NSW 1788-1849

http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/ships.htm

* Clicking on a highlighted ship will generate the ship's (Irish) passenger list


Welcome to the Mayberry Home Page
http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/index.htm

Search the Irish Convicts Database
http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi

Irish Convicts Page
http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/convicts.htm

Convict Links
http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/austlinks.htm

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Convict Records - Ancestry, you will need to become a member to view the details
http://landing.ancestry.co.uk/intl/au/convict/

Other Resources available via Ancestry.

First Fleet, 1787-1788

Second Fleet, 1789-1790

Third Fleet, 1791

Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868

Convict Musters, 1806-1849

Convict Pardons, 1834-1859

Convict Lists, 1787-1834

Tracing convict heritage can be challenging due to the scarce availability of records, as well as the low literacy levels within convict communities that resulted in incomplete or illegible records.

You can also search via Ancestry, Australia
Convict Transportation Registers 1788-1868
http://blogs.ancestry.com/au/2011/01/24/convict-transportation-registers-1788-1868/

Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788

Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Second Fleet, 1789-1790

Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791

Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868
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Pilot Guides - A Short History of Convict Australia
http://www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/pacific/australia/convict_australia/index.php

Who were the convicts?
Transportation
Convict Life
Pardon and Punishment
Escapes
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NRS 1155 Musters and other papers relating to convict ships
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/nrs-lists/nrs1155#g

New South Wales, Government, Australia

These papers usually came from England on the transport. The lists of convicts generally show only name, date and place of trial, and sentence. They are sometimes copies of the indentures with the owner of the ship contracting to transport convicts, or a muster taken before embarkation or just before or just after disembarkation. The other papers are miscellaneous - lists of deaths during the voyage, convicts to be employed in the iron'd gangs, warrants to transport military prisoners, lists of free settlers on board, etc. Occasionally there are letters about a convict after arrival.

Copy service
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/copy-service

You can purchase photocopies of State archives from many of our online indexes. If you find your ancestor or a name of interest in one of these indexes simply look to see if there is a 'tick to order' box available. We also have other copy services for records not listed in our online indexes.
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Penal Transportation - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation

Info and further links included.

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Convicts to Australia - A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/index.html
 http://www.convictcentral.com/

Search These Lists Online:

All the Convict Ships

WA Convicts

WA Pensioner Guards

NSW Convict Women -  includes 2 lists, Convict Ships to NSW 1788-1800 & Convict Ships to NSW 1801-1849

Convict Tales


This site holds a wealth of information for anyone researching Convict Ships.

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Australian Government - Convicts and the British colonies in Australia
A penal colony
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/convicts-and-the-british-colonies

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Images for transportation of convicts
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=transportation+of+convicts&start=10&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1440&bih=781&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=iGwhTorcBsu6hAet85GzAw&ved=0CDUQsAQ4Cg
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An index to records held in York Reference library of prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes 1785 - 1851
http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/assizes.htm

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Ireland-Australia transportation database - The National Archives of Ireland
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/search01.html

Transportation of convicts: system of transportation
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/transportation.html

Sources in the National Archives for research into the transportation of Irish convicts to Australia (1791-1853) by Rena Lohan: introduction
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/transp1.html

The National Archives of Ireland holds a wide range of records relating to the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia covering the period 1788 to 1868. In some cases these include records of members of convicts' families transported as free settlers.

To mark the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, the Taoiseach presented microfilms of the most important of these records to the Government and People of Australia as a gift from the Government and People of Ireland. A computerised index to the records was prepared with the help of IBM and is available for use at various locations in Australia.

While the collection of convict petitions dates from the beginning of transportation from Ireland to Australia in 1791, all transportation registers compiled before 1836 were destroyed in the Four Courts fire of June 1922. Therefore, if the person you are researching was convicted before 1836, but was not the subject of a petition, he or she will not appear on this database. In other words, the records from which the transportation database was compiled such as the transportation registers, convict reference files and petitions to government for pardon or commutation of sentence, are incomplete.

Online search

To search the transportation database, please click on the following link: Ireland-Australia transportation database

For more on the history and historical sources of transportation, consult the brief outline and the comprehensive article by Rena Lohan

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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

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Transportation of Convicts from Nottingham - Transportations to Australia
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jdriver/news/Transportations.html

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Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Transportations. - Genealogy Today
http://www.genealogytoday.com/au/articles/convict_research.html

List of names of convicts.

The convicts on this list were tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Court which tried less serious offences . The Quarter Sessions minute books are at Nottingham Archives . Offences deemed to be more serious were tried at the Assizes Court . These records are at the Public Record Ofiice , Kew , London. Both Assizes and Quarter Sessions trials were reported in local papers of the era . These are available at Nottingham Central Library and the National Newspaper Library , Colindale , London

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Lancaster Castle - Convicts Sentenced at Lancaster and Transported to Australia
http://www.lancastercastle.com/html/convict/default.php

Convict Database
A list of the convict information we currently hold.  It lists all the people tried and sentenced at Lancaster Assize about whom we have some definite evidence.

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Lincolnshire Convicts Transported
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/convictssearch.aspx?navCode=22907

Nearly 2000 convicts are known to have been transported from Lincolnshire between 1788 and 1868 to to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda.

They are all listed in the Lincolnshire Archives Convicts database - Searchable

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Convict transportation registers database - Queensland Government Australia
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/convicts

This site is Searchable

Convict Queenslanders
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/convicts/qlders
Convict Queenslanders are people who arrived in Australia as convicts, then made their way to Queensland where they became a part of the colony's history.

Thomas Dowse 1809-1885
William Henry Groom 1833-1901
James Josey 1821-1908
James Davis "Durramboi" 1808-1889
Kevin Izod O’Doherty 1823-1905
John Flood 1832-1909           "The Wild Goose"   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Goose
Patrick O'Sullivan 1818-1904
Hannah Rigby c.1794-1853
Edward Mott 1807-1900
William Charles Wilkes  c.1816-1873

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Index to Tasmanian Convicts - Archives Office of Tasmania
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=11

This site is Searchable

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Welcome to Freemantle Prison - Western Australia
http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/Convict.aspx

Convict Database search by Ship or Convicts Name

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First Fleet
http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/index.html

First Fleet Online consists of information about the convicts who were transported to Australia in 1787. A fleet of ships carrying over 1000 convicts and military under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Australia in January 1788 after a journey of seven months. Few ships had been here before other than the early Dutch, French, and British explorers. So it was quite a journey to undertake.

Database - Searchable
http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/search.html
This section contains a searchable database of 780 First Fleet convicts. It does not contain information about the other 200 sailors, marines and officers who sailed with them. There are three ways this data can be searched.

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Convict Records
http://www.coraweb.com.au/convict.htm
Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num

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Public Record Office of Australia - Courts and Criminal Justice – Convict Records
http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide057/PROVguide057.jsp

Convicts as referred to in this PROVguide are those people convicted of an offence in Britain, or a British colony, whose sentence was to be transported to New South Wales, Tasmania or Western Australia.  Transportation officially ceased in New South Wales and Tasmania in 1853 and in Western Australia in 1868.  Strictly speaking, no convicts were transported directly to the Port Phillip District of New South Wales. However convicts did find their way to the District, and this generally happened in one of three ways: a convict from Sydney could be assigned to a work gang in Port Phillip; a ticket of leave holder might enter Port Phillip from either New South Wales or Tasmania to work and was required to register with the authorities; or the convict may have been an Exile.

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Australian Medical Pioneers Index
http://www.medicalpioneers.com/

Welcome to the Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI), a database of over 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s through to 1875. The site covers Australian medical history, with a database of medical pioneers and educational background material. You will find doctors who were registered or qualified in Australia, were resident in Australia, or visited here in a professional capacity, before 1875. Ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists are included.

AMPI provides access to information obtained from sources such as medical registers, shipping records, newspapers, pictorial archives, and early medical publications.

Explore the site for a fascinating glimpse into Australia's medical past. Get to know the naval and military surgeons of the early days. Meet the doctors on the goldfields, and in the old colonial cities and country towns.

AMPI uses data from the original card file of Dr. David Richards, computerised and edited at the Geelong Hospital Library. The AMPI website was developed and funded by the State Library of Victoria through Vicnet and Victoria's Virtual Library

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Founders & Survivors
http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org/

Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society.

Search Convicts
http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch

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1787 Convict Love Token  - by Convict Thomas Tilley of the First Fleet
http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/objectsthroughtime/convict-love-tokens/

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Engraved Coins - Love Tokens
http://www.tokensociety.org.uk/topics/engraved.shtml

......The first are transportation tokens, often engraved or just pricked out with a nail on worn or smoothed cartwheel pennies (George III, 1797).  These were made by prisoners whilst held on the hulks prior to transportation to the New World.....

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Convict Hulks - Life on the prison ships
http://anmm.academia.edu/KieranHosty/Papers/254594/Convict_Hulks_-_Life_on_the_prison_ships

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Every token tells a story

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/every-token-tells-a-story/story-e6frg7ko-1111118301986

WHEN convicts received a sentence of transportation to NSW.........
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Love Token - William Adams, Australia, 1834
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/78081/love-token-william-adams-australia-1834

Love token made from smoothed and stippled 1797 penny in 1834. This token was made for William Adams to give to his sister.
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Convict Records in Australia - Book
http://www.coraweb.com.au/convictdetails.htm

This book is a must if you are researching a convict in the family

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